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- doctorfungi, on 10/12/2007, -15/+125You mean it would have been manipulated using Adobe© Photoshop© Software?
- cannibaljp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+90our pale blue dot...
home sweet home. - Fogdelune, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66Everybody you've ever known is on that mote of dust. :)
- quomen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61A view of Earth?
I tried to wipe the speck off my screen.. doh - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -9/+52Dont even get me started on Uranus
- thetanbark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Funny how something looking like that in a "regular" photograph would be considered a spec of dust and photoshopped out.
- maglob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Looks fake, the sign of a great photo
- TheInfamousOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Moron.
- threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I think your tin foil hat is a little tight around your temple.. I'd loosen it if I was you.
- Asht0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Adobe_The_Photoshop_trademark_must_never_be_used_as_a_verb
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24**************************************************************************************
Just in case the site goes down below is the view of Earth from Saturn:
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. - Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25i think i missed the bulletin that made this funny or ironic. anyone care to point out what happened? did Adobe become anal about its copyrights or something?
- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47EBLD-ISyc
One of the best videos I've seen that tries to convey Sagan's eloquent quote from Pale Blue Dot. Just finished reading that book and it is still relevant today. - DivineMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Why do these topics always get crappy idiotic comments? Just shut the ***** up and enjoy the picture...
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22yes, imagine...all the billions of people in this planet in a single dot.
- blog4charity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Saturn looks really nice
- bumfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
- reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Dude, we've known about Saturn since prehistoric times.
Wouldn't this be a little difficult if we couldn't see the ***** thing? - Infidelephant, on 10/12/2007, -11/+23Aw MAN! It was only a silly (very silly) joke!!!
No need to digg me down.
I meant NO offense to people who live in trailer parks. (and actually use the internets and post on digg)
Please forgive. - Infidelephant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Think about the great expanses of space and the absolute genius it takes to get "the camera" out there to begin with. When they originally shot it out there, they weren't aiming AT Saturn, they were aiming where they knew Saturn was GOING to be when it got there.
If they are able to do that, they should have no problem knowing where in the system the planet "the camera" came from, and where it would be when the picture was shot.
...in layman's terms. - monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12yeah, like you.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15or the sign of a fake photo
but I agree with you, the best photos are those that look too good to be real - rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://homepage.ntlworld.com/w.leslie/5planets.html
- Zoltair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9spitfire: Buy a pair of binoculars, Saturn is not that hard to see and the rings are visible in simple 10x50 binos..... Saturn is also one of the most photographed object by amateur astronomers because it is such an easy target.
check out.... http://www.ruppel.darkhorizons.org/planets.htm - naes341, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Everyone knows Uranus is a ***** place.
- droidiac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11oops digg down
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@sgagnon (#6414204)
You are correct, although the image is an "exaggerated color" image. The original, untouched, with some more details about the structures of Saturn, is here:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 - Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I hadn't seen the dupes so no problem for me that it comes to the front page again
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Earth sucks I am going to Saturn.
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It sucks when you think about having to share the same couple of pixels with every douchebag on Earth.
- JAG731, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Puts our "everyday" problems into perspective, huh?
- BigW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6FYI: 1 billion kilometers = 621 million miles
So yes, if the number of kilometers is over a billion, then rounding up for miles would be almost a billion. In fact 1 billion miles would be over 1.6 billion kilometers. So their statement was completely factually correct, if a bit fuzzy in the resolution of the numbers. - SGagnon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Cool, I'm already using that photo as a background on my laptop and for those saying it's fake or "photoshop'ed", read this:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html - alskdjfh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Parts of the ring are in saturn's shadow.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Look at the sky without a telescope. You can see it if you know what to look for.
- cyclingbum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's calculating the answer to the ultimate question.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We call it Saturn, but I just know that in some gigantic world, where one second lasts thousands of our years, some gigantic kid is just playing a record on a turntable.
I mean, look at those pictures... isn't it obvious what we're seeing?
OK Maybe it's a giant hard drive inside a gigantic computer that runs the galaxy as a program. - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8That's my house, not yours.
- reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Bring on the warp drives, science.
I need to see this with my own eyes. - wbtn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Original NASA photograph
http://img24.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=58979_Top_Secret_122_710lo.jpg - enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Aside from being vague, what's wrong with that statement? If the actual distance was (say) 1.4 billion km, then it was both "more than a billion km" and "nearly a billion miles".
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice poem, Yoda. "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Marry not, young Jedi."
- IllBeBack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@chimona:
The capitalization was not haphazard. It was meant as word emphasis given that we are unable to use such primitive text emphasizing tools such as "bold" and "italic" in this silly little primitive Digg comment editor. - seanfrank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've had this picture on my desktop for months and I eventually photo-shopped out the dot because I'm OCD and it was driving me crazy. I had no idea it was earth, I would have left it! I love this picture.
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"""You mean it would have been manipulated using Adobe© Photoshop© Software?"""
Nah not necessarily - I don't know what Adobe are on about - "to photoshop" that's just a verb.
After all, isn't that just public knowledge? ;) ;) ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1amen brother!
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"""You mean it looks photoshopped?"""
It may well have been photoshopped. I wonder what kind of software you'd use to photoshop something like that. GIMP probably, or that paint.net thing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7hehe that picture has been on my desktop for 2 months ;)
- terriblelie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome pic. Perfect for a widescreen background. :)
- tragicmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1...What? If Earth is only a speck from Saturn, how do you know that you can't see, from Earth, the speck that is Saturn, when you obviously wouldn't know it if you did?
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